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4,419karma·3,770submissions·August 18, 2015
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>To get in, you need 4 A* from an independent schools, or just 3 As from state schools. Or ABB for the incoming president of the Oxford Union, the one who cheered Charlie Kirk's murder a few m…
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Trump answered a reporter's question about this. The fee is $100K per employee per year.
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>$25K annual fee per H1B worker as opposed to $100K one-time It's $100K per employee per year.
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>The only effect this is going to have is accelerating the offshoring of jobs through more hiring in India Such offshoring was possible before and after today. Put another way, if all the H-1B jobs…
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>you think any rational actor in this space that was hiring H1Bs isn't going to simply relocate them to more friendly jurisdictions for immigration? This was true before and after today. Put a…
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>This will only drive jobs offshore This was true before and after today. Put another way, if all the H-1B jobs really can be offshored quickly and easily the way so many Indians and anti-Trump peo…
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From Wikipedia < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMag >: >By its third issue PC was square-bound, because it was too thick for saddle-stitch. At first the magazine publis…
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Similarly, when the Trump administration came close to forcing a divestment/shutdown on TikTok in 2020, Americans were 10% of TikTok's user base but 50% of revenue. Of the top 50 most-follow…
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>If you are successful the newUSA will force you to divest what you've build against your will. Besides what bluecalm said, if TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese…
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More like the other way around. US users are today 21 of the 49 TikTok accounts with the most followers < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a... > (n…
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Edited by me from "Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science fiction gadget: The universal translator"
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For a lot of Europeans it's as simple as "air conditioning = USA = bad"
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> That's quite the understatement - they were everywhere. "I doubt we'll ever bomb Japan as long as they make Epson printers" —Woz, 1983 < https://books.google.com&…
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I recently learned that Las Vegas recycles 100% of its drinking water.